Android O reliable for Nokia 6, 5 and 3

You still can’t buy a Android-toting Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3, yet HMD Global, a organisation behind a new Nokia handsets, has reliable exclusively to TechRadar that a contingent will be upgraded to Android O (Android 8) once it’s available.

Android O is a subsequent chronicle of Google’s mobile platform, and was announced during a hunt giant’s annual IO discussion in May. 

A orator from HMD Global told TechRadar “the smartphones will get a Android O refurbish once a new recover is accessible from Google for their OEM partners, a same approach HMD Global is committed to a monthly Android confidence updates”.

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Not accessible right away

The Android O refurbish is not slated to be accessible until Q3 2017 (September or October), and it’s doubtful a new Nokia smartphones will get a refurbish right away. 

The orator told us they couldn’t criticism on a attainment date for Android O on a Nokia 6, 5 and 3 – yet in a past it has infrequently taken manufacturers months to hurl out new software.

There is a intensity china backing for a Nokia 6, 5 and 3 though, as they run an roughly batch chronicle of Android 7, that should make a switch to Android 8 quicker and easier. 

We wish it’ll be accessible before Christmas, creation a new Nokias some of a initial phones to get a update.

• Read the hands on reviews: Nokia 6 | Nokia 5 | Nokia 3